‘In Chelsea training, Mohamed Salah was like Messi. Really, like Messi’

When Liverpool signed Mohamed Salah for £34 million in the summertime of 2017, some soccer followers in England raised their eyebrows as a result of he’d flopped at Chelsea.

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The Egyptian scored 34 targets in 83 video games for AS Roma however had beforehand flattered to deceive at Stamford Bridge.

Salah moved to England from Basel in January 2014 however solely scored two targets in 19 largely forgettable appearances for Chelsea earlier than being loaned to Fiorentina.

Nonetheless, Salah has established his standing as one of many world’s finest forwards since becoming a member of the Reds.

In 186 appearances, the 28-year-old has netted an impressive 118 targets. He’s gained two Premier League Golden Boot awards and, in fact, has helped his workforce win each the league title and the Champions League.

Whose fault was it that Salah flopped at Chelsea?

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Jose Mourinho was the person accountable for the Blues on the time and a few have pointed the finger on the Portuguese coach for Salah’s failure to shine in west London.

In an interview with beIN Sports activities in 2019, Mourinho insisted: “He arrived at Chelsea, coming from Basel, as a lonely boy, a naive boy, fully out of context and bodily fragile.

“Then he goes to Italy. He has the expertise at Fiorentina, he has the expertise at Roma and when he comes again to England he comes fully tailored to the excessive degree of European soccer.

“He has the next understanding of the sport, he’s bodily a lot stronger. You may see his physique and his health is far stronger and far more assured.”

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Nonetheless, in an interview with The Guardian this week, former Chelsea left-back Filipe Luis has revealed that Salah was so good in coaching periods that he even resembled the nice Lionel Messi.

Like Salah, Luis struggled to supply his high kind below Mourinho at Chelsea.

The Brazilian, who returned to Atletico Madrid after only one season with the Blues, admits Salah made him undergo throughout Chelsea coaching periods.

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“It would seem like we fell out however I like [Mourinho],” Luis mentioned. “I gained the league with him. However he didn’t get the most effective out of me, simply as he didn’t with Salah.”

On the Egypt worldwide, Luis added: “I suffered Salah in coaching, pfff.

“When he went Fiorentina, I mentioned: ‘Why are you going, Momo? That is Chelsea.’ And he mentioned: ‘I have to play.’

“I assumed: ‘This child’s good.’ He by no means went for cash or to win extra; he went to indicate he may play.

“In coaching he was like Messi. Actually, like Messi. Ask anybody.”

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That Salah was apparently like Messi in coaching makes it all of the extra baffling why Mourinho didn’t give the wide-forward extra of a possibility at Stamford Bridge.

It was clear to Luis that Salah was a significant expertise, able to reaching nice issues, however we will solely assume that Mourinho felt in another way on the time.